Digital For Sport
Digital for Sport is a new initiative designed to support National Governing Bodies and Local Sports Partnerships looking to harness the power of digital technology to increase efficiencies and performance!
A collaboration between Sport Ireland and the Innovation Exchange, Digital for Sport will help sport bodies to identify and adopt digital solutions that will:
• Streamline administrative processes
• Optimise data management and communications
• Improve the understanding of team/athlete performance
Challenge areas
The types of challenges we expect to address via Digital for Sport include co-odinating, scheduling, communications, payments processing, ticketing, fundraising, financial management, data analytics, facilities maintenance, reporting and governance, event management, social media and website management.The Sport Innovation and Technology Summit 2024
2nd of October
in the Sport Ireland Campus
Solutions providers
Sports bodies will gain access to the Innovation Exchange’s Solution Provider members — mostly Irish technology companies — talented innovators with exceptional expertise in SME digital technologies. All have built strong track records and are based across the country.
How the Innovation Exchange works
The Innovation Exchange is a marketplace for innovation – it connects organisations facing digital challenges with the technology expertise that can fast-track the solutions.
• Before the challenge process begins, the Innovation Exchange advisors will engage with the sport body to agree, shape and work on how the challenge should be presented.
• The next step is to share the challenge with members. This is done via a one hour zoom call (presentation followed by q&a) moderated by the Innovation Exchange.
• Following this members will submit solution proposals which are assessed by the Innovation Exchange who will then make recommendations to the sport body.
• Selected solutions providers will be invited to pitch directly to the sport body (facilitated by the Innovation Exchange). There is no obligation on the part of the sport body to progress with any solution.
From Challenge to Deal in Six Steps
Challenges so far
